If possible, set assignee to the original PR's author

[yardenshoham]

The calls are separated to allow the assignee call to fail and still let the milestone call to pass

[jolheiser]

We hadn't done this in the past, is there a reason to do so now?

[yardenshoham]

If a backport PR needs some work (for example go-gitea/gitea@28f55bd), someone should own it.

[jolheiser]

Hmm, but even then an assignee can't push to the branch to fix any issues, right?

[yardenshoham]

That's right but that's the best we can do... It's better than nothing

[yardenshoham]

BTW this will only assign go-gitea org members

[jolheiser]

BTW this will only assign go-gitea org members

Ah, I didn't know this part. That makes it a bit better, but still not 100% sure.
I don't use the assignee functionality enough to know the implications.

[yardenshoham]

That's fine. So you're neutral about this. @techknowlogick do you approve?

[techknowlogick]

nixos kinda does this with their backport bot, so I'm for it :)

[yardenshoham]

Nice auto-merge experience right there